On 15 June, 2pm, a specially created artist production crew will be directing the pilot for a TV talk show at Nottingham Contemporary. Hosted by special guest Bruce Asbestos, invited experts will speak on a variety of subjects around the history of artist broadcasting. Speakers will include: Johan Grimonprez (Director of the iconic dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y) Kris Paulsen (Assistant Professor, Film and Media …

On Friday 14 June, 12pm – 7pm, we will be presenting a selection of artists’ works that have been made and conceived for television. The free screening will take place at Nottingham Contemporary on a series of monitors in The Space. Works will repeat throughout the day. Works included in the screening are: John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, Videospace Ilene Segalove, More …

Friday 31 May Doors: 7.30pm Screening: 8pm – 8.45pm Presentation, discussion and the Pizza Off: 8.45pm onwards Venue: Primary, 33 Seely Rd, Nottingham, NG7 1NU Presented in association with New Art Exchange Black Audio Film Collective’s The Last Angel of History is one of the most influential video-essays of the 1990s, influencing filmmakers and many others. The film is an engaging …

I’ve been reading on Rewind, an ongoing research project and archive on artist’s video in the 70′s and 80′s – many useful texts, links, names in their database alongside a good set of relevant essays in line with the current series of event’s we’re hosting at Primary. Some excepts that stood out while reading: ‘The Trouble with Video Art‘, By Kevin …

But nothing we film and shoot now will be compatible with whatever holographic hand widgets we’ll be using in the future. And the quality will seem appalling. Think of the first phone you ever got with a built-in camera. Still got all those pictures, have you? Of course not: the quality is appalling. Some of those pixels are the size …

Scarcity creates demand for an application in affordable forms, a kind of image of an archetype. This strange acceleration leads to mimicry and we end up with a model of a thing that becomes redundant.

From Nicolau Faria’s blog: This short story explores the idea that our expectations are much higher than the real thing might be and that we believe that something is authentic when it meets these expectations – even if what was actually authentic has been tampered with and overly exaggerated. The Greatest Television Show on Earth The discovery in the year 2001 …

“I made a number of these video tapes and for the most part I found the practise of making them extremely unsatisfactory, a lot of which had to do with the viewing conventions in museums, often times when your work was shown in museums if you were lucky enough to be invited to show, your work was shown in a …

According to the simulation thesis, the viewer’s faculty for distinguishing between reality and fiction is disabled by the medium. The primary reality is therefore blurred or replaced by a second, delusional one.

No project operates in a vacuum. All absolute philosophies like this are impossible to achieve; they treat the world undialectically, and disregard practical limiting factors…. But any future local media project… must start with some practical guidelines for its work. These aims must be development on an evolving, flexible basis, through experimentation and as external influences and restraints change.

A groups fascination for publicity can end up in doing things simply in order to get it, while liasing with the media- to get them to come and loo at you can take up so much time you can’t get anything else done… for who’s the person to go and do an interview – the best talker, the most photogenic, the person who did it last time?… Our will to live is cut down to a soundbite; our collective strength is reduced to a single figurehead who’s easily compromised or rubbished… “We have the image of the movement to think of, people won’t want to join a movement of extremists”

Visitors to Tethervision may notice that the website hasn’t published any new content since the beginning of 2011. Rather than Tethervision coming to an end with Black Swans Episode 3, we have been working and developing ideas to progress towards an artist run television channel. The initial aim of Tethervision was clear: frequent, short videos on or around contemporary art …

The work of Jonathan Gillie recently featured in the exhibition Race For The Prize. Gillie’s work references current aesthetics in the visual, as well as the musical avant-garde. His animations are heavily layered compositions in which process and precision play an equal role to instinct and experiment. Attempting to visualize current thinking in science, electronic music and moving image he …

Over the next 4 months, Alan Armstrong will be working on a new project that primarily involves constructing a soapbox car to participate in the upcoming Cadwell Park soapbox race in Lincolnshire on the 13th November 2010. He has a new blog which will document the project, supported by Tethervision, until the race day in November. Documenting the cart build and its probable …

SCREEN SHOTS 2009 | single-channel video with audio | 16:9 | 03:33 minutes Screen Shots functions as an abridged interpretation of a crime-thriller-feature-film as six key ‘scenes’ have been spliced together coercing the viewer to supply the connective tissue of the narrative. Any ‘action’ taking place within the film will never be seen but instead heard as if happening in a …

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On 15 June, 2pm, a specially created artist production crew will be directing the pilot for a TV talk show at Nottingham Contemporary. Hosted by special guest Bruce Asbestos, invited experts will speak on a variety of subjects around the history of artist broadcasting. Speakers will include: Johan Grimonprez (Director of the iconic dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y) Kris Paulsen (Assistant Professor, Film and Media …

On Friday 14 June, 12pm – 7pm, we will be presenting a selection of artists’ works that have been made and conceived for television. The free screening will take place at Nottingham Contemporary on a series of monitors in The Space. Works will repeat throughout the day. Works included in the screening are: John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, Videospace Ilene Segalove, More …

Friday 31 May Doors: 7.30pm Screening: 8pm – 8.45pm Presentation, discussion and the Pizza Off: 8.45pm onwards Venue: Primary, 33 Seely Rd, Nottingham, NG7 1NU Presented in association with New Art Exchange Black Audio Film Collective’s The Last Angel of History is one of the most influential video-essays of the 1990s, influencing filmmakers and many others. The film is an engaging …